VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-4375

critical
Published 2010-12-14 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1, Mac RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1, Linux RealPlayer 11.0.2.1744, and possibly HelixPlayer 1.0.6 and other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed multi-rate data in an audio stream.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
realnetworksrealplayer11.0
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.1
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.2
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.3
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.4
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.5
realnetworksrealplayer11.1
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.2.1744

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.